Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Now, maybe Tory London Mayoral candidate Stephen Norris takes job with Jarvis, who have a big role in the controversial Public-Private Partnership Privatisation-by-another-name of the London Underground, because he's realistic about his chances of winning the job at the next election. After all, Labour look likely to readmit Ken livingstone to the party and have him as their official candidate, but he'll have the full wait off most of the papers gunning for him over the successful but unpopular (to them) Congestion Charge scheme. Should Norris get the job there would be a clear conflict of interest. Norris has played it dumb and said that if he did become mayor he would resign from Jarvis, but before he left he would get briefed on their plans, would know where they stood on PPP and could expect to go back to work for them after his term as mayor, so whether he's officially on the payroll or not is irrelevent, he'd be working for them in all but name.